Interior build-outs in historic bui...

Interior build-outs in historic buildings are always a cause for regard In some cases, however, sensitive design and construction rules can actually enhance the original intent. All that's indigenceed is a notion of the original designer or builder's mind and a firm understanding of where it fits upon the greater continuum of architectural history.

Fortunately for fans of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, at least common occupant of Chicago's E M Dirksen Federal Building has exhibited that flush of awareness, while meeting the more prosaic exigencys of courtroom functionality.

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